Brave New World

About the Book

The astonishing novel Brave New World, originally published in 1932, presents Aldous Huxley’s vision of the future—of a world utterly transformed. Through the most efficient scientific and psychological engineering, people are genetically designed to be passive and therefore consistently useful to the ruling class. This powerful work of speculative fiction sheds a blazing critical light on the present and is considered to be Huxley’s most enduring masterpiece.

Following Brave New World is the nonfiction work Brave New World Revisited, first published in 1958. It is a fascinating work in which Huxley uses his tremendous knowledge of human relations to compare the modern-day world with the prophetic fantasy envisioned in Brave New World, including threats to humanity, such as overpopulation, propaganda, and chemical persuasion.

Critical Praise

“[A] masterpiece. ... One of the most prophetic dystopian works of the 20th century.” - Wall Street Journal

Product Details

ISBN:9780061767647

ISBN 10: 0061767646

Imprint:Harper Perennial

On Sale:
01/19/2010

Trimsize: 5.500 in (w)
x 8.250 in (h)
x 0.960 in (d)

Pages:384

List Price: $18.99

BISAC1 : FICTION / Classics

BISAC2 : FICTION / Science Fiction / Genetic Engineering

BISAC3 : FICTION / Dystopian

Photo by The Granger Collection

Aldous Huxley

Biography

Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) is the author of the classic novels Brave New World, Island, Eyeless in Gaza, and The Genius and the Goddess, as well as such critically acclaimed nonfiction works as The Perennial Philosophy and The Doors of Perception. Born in Surrey, England, and educated at Oxford, he died in Los Angeles, California.

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